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The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
Long Distance Cavalry Riders.

Long distance rides were IA feature
of the army exercises in India last sca-
son. Capt. Dean-Pitt, olficiating 4.
Q. M. g., of the Mhow Divisioa, has
issued pamphlet in which the official
reports are reproduced, giving full
particulars of each.
The most important experiment. in
point of numbers engaged, was that
which was undertaken by Gen. Luck
under the camp exercise at Sibi. Here
complete cavalry brigade, consisting
of the Fifth Bombay Cavalry and the
Belooch Horse, nearly 800 all told,was
called out. Gen. Luck appeared to
have aimed at giving as practical a
character as possible to the enterprise
In his belief, distance marches per-
formed by few specially trained
and selected men are of no value as
proofs of what the regiment can
perform; hence the calling out of two
entire regiments.
An old horse, over II years old, broke
down after the first so miles; another
fell out at 80 miles. Other of the old
horses were exhausted later in the
march, and two died. These casualties
HdPpeuct Ill LiIe run cavalry. Inc
Belooch Regiment was more fortunate,
for of the 326 who started, only two
were unable to complete the march.
In the detailed account of the condi-
ton of the horses of the Royal Artil-
lery which took part in the long march
from Kamptee to JubbulpOre and
back, weakness and age certainly are
not shown to have gone together, a
16-year old horse being entered as in
fairly good condition after march of
80 miles; while horses of II, IS, and
10 are included among the class in
good condition.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
A Blow Given in The Dark.

Mai. Haggarty was in the city yes
terday, and while seated upon one OF
the red-leathered ottOmans at the
Delavan reeled of this story. 81 never
carried bludgeon in my life, " said he,
''save a sword while l was in the army,
and that was perfectly harmless in my
hands. In one of my political can
vases, Il friend of mine remarked:
''Yo on are out all hours of the night and
are you never afraid that You may be
assaulted for the money you have on
your person or your watchP 'Oh, not
l said, but | must tell you that the con-
stant talk of danger kept me thinking
that it would be as well, perhaps, to
be armed to a certain extent, so |
looked around among my sticks and |
found a venerable blackthorn which !
thought might serve the purpose. |
hadn't long to wait. One night as |
was returning to my home through a
dark street / noticed two men standing
in a gateway, and just as | got up to
them one of them with quick move
ment stepped out. | thought that if |
acted at all | must act promptly, so |
hauled off and gave him the entire bene-
fit of the cudgel. Down he went, and /,
thinking | had done my whole duty in
protecting myself from assault, soon
found my door. Next morning as /
reached the corner of my street ! found
a friend of mine with what appeared
to be the map of some strange country
on his head in sticking plaster, and on
making the inquiry: What has hap
pened to you?' he informed me that he
had been talking with friend of his
the night before, in the milkman's
gate, and had bade him good night and
stepped out across to his own house,
when burly ruffian stretched him with
blow of bludgeon. He said, when
he came to himself and found his
watch all right and his bit of money,
he concluded that it was an act of
private vengeance. With fear and
trembling L inquired whom he sus-
pected, when he answered that he had
had a few words with an old friend at
a recent picnic and had had a cinch,
and, although he thought it was all
quieted and forgotten, he had conclud-
ed that this man was the one who had
committed the assault upon him. The
elub-struck man, the major concluded,
''was always my friend, and worked
like a beaver for my election when
ever | was nominated for any office"
Albany ArgUS.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
Mime. WoIter,

Nine. VOTERS jubilee has just been
celebrated in Vienna. This lady,
whose real name is Comtesse O'Sulli-
van; is one of the greatest artists of
the Hofburg. The following anecdote
is related of her: At the last meeting
Of their imperial Majesties of Austria
and Russia at Kremsier, the Hofburg
had performed before the sovereigns.
Later, the Empress of Austria invited
Nine. Wolter, wishing to present her
to the Czarina. She did so, calling
her ''Mme. Wolter." After this pre-
sentation the Empress said, in an
aside to the actress, You must not
mistake my intention, dear Countess,
in calling You Nine. Wolter' instead
of Countess OSullivan. | am proud
Of you as being Nine. Wolter. | have
plenty of COuntesses around me daily;
but it is only when have an Empress
as guest that have the occasion of re-
ceiving Nine. Wolter."
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
The Action of q Tornado.

When the conditions of atmospheric
instability have given birth to tor
nado, the fact is announced to the OBJ
server by q sudden gathering Of dark,
swift-whirling clouds, from which de-
pend writhing, serpent-like body
formed of condensed vapor. This
writhing column extends rapidly down.
ward until it touches the earth. When
it attains the surface it becomes audi
BILE from the violent rending actions
which it creates upon that surface. AS
soon as the whirl is created it begins
to move away, generally toward the
northeastern the evident reason that
the upper cold layer of air against
which it originates has, in the north
ern hemisphere, movement in that
direction.
In its path over the surface, the cir
cling movement of the writhing air
and the suction action of the partial
vacuum in the central portion of the
shaft combine to bring about an ex-
treme devastation. On the outside of
the whirl the air, which rushes ir
circling path toward the vortex, over
turns all movable objects, and in the
center these objects, if they are not too
heavy, are sucked up as by great
air-pump. Thus the roofs of houses,
bodies of men and animals, may be
lifted to great elevations, until they
are tossed by the tumultuous move
ments beyond the limits of the ascend
ing currents and fall back upon the
earth. Where the center of the whirl-
wind passes over building, the sud-
den decrease in the pressure of the
outer air often causes the atmosphere
which is contained within the walls
suddenly to press against the sides of
the structure, so that three sides are
quickly driven outward as if by
charge of gunpowder.
1t is not unlikely that the diminu-
ton of pressure brought about By the
passage of the interior of the whirl
over building may be about as much
as is indicated by the fall of four inches
in the barometer. This is equivalent
to IA change in the pressure amounting
to about three hundred pounds to the
square foot. This force operates to
burst out the walls of a building. 1t
is not improbable that the diminution
of pressure may be much greater than
Llis, but even the amount named is
sufficient to account for the bursting
out of the frail-walled structures which
these devastating movements encount-
er in the western parts of the United
States. Magazine.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
Harenis.

In many respects the harems of Con-
stantinople are allowed greater liberty
than those of Egypt and Persia, The
ladies of Stamboui are much addicted
to walking, whereas those of Cairo
are never seen in the streets on foot.
At the Sweet waters the harems stray
over the meadows or picnic on the
banks of the Kiaght Khanch stream,
with the fresh air blowing round them.
The Egyptian DANES, however, can
never stir except in their carriages,
and can only view the world and their
neighbors from the windows of
brougham The BeZestan of Stam-
boul Is daily honored by great ladies
who also think no evil of riding in the
public tram-cars between Galata and
Pera; but an Egyptian harem who at
tempted to mix with the crowd in such
promiscuous fashion would be prompt
" banned. In other ways, however,
especially since the days of Ismail
Pasha, the harem of Cairo has opened
its eyes considerably to what goes on
beyond its proper ken. The wives and
families of foreign residents and trav-
elers put down the various high har-
ems on their visiting lists, and the BIZ
weekly prOmenades Oh the Shoobra
and Gezirch avenues give the veiled
ones an opportunity of seeing in the
flesh the personageS of whom they are
perpetually hearing stories and anec-
dotes. 1t also gives the men a chance
of having this and that Ighanem pointed
out to them as they whirl past in their
neat little carriages till each gets to
know the other by sight at least toler-
ably well. The opera and the after
noon promenade are the chief excite
ments of Egyptian harem life. The
Cairo opera house, built by the late
khedive in style commensurate with
the lavish disregard of expense which
marked his reign, is fitted with dozen
boxes on the second tier, whose fronts
are framed with a gauzy screen ena-
bling the occupants to watch the play
and the house, and supposed to pre-
vent the house from watching them.
The sparkling of bright eyes and dia-
monds are nevertheless apt to attract
discreet attention, and a powerful
glass nearly annihilates the screen, so
that the beauties in reality come not
only to see, but to be seen, like their
western sisters round them. A separ-
ate entrance leads up to the harem
boxes, and after the fall of the curtain
the harem don their habarahs and
steal out to their carriages by a back
way, where it is whispered that many
a note and bonbonniere await them on
their passage.-Ihe Saturday ReUied0.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15

The famous English "bone-setter, Z"
Mr.. Hutton, who died recently (says
the Liverpool MercuTy), had no learn
ing. He neither walked the hospit-
ais" nor ever learned the names of all
the crevices in the human skeleton.
Ii he had had all the bones of human
body thrown down before him he
would have been at great pains to ar
range them in order. Yet trained men
sent patients with dislocations to him.
He had knack which was almost a
genius for discovering what was the
matter, and he took the strongest not
to say the most violent, way of putting
bones together again in their proper
places. While the cautious surgeon
was thinking what might safely be
done, he had done it. He was rarely
unsuccessful where there was only dis
placement and no actual disease. His
patients were the most distinguished
in the land, and he shrank from moth
ing when once he had decided what
was to be done
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
The Summer Fishers.


Three fishers went sailing out in the lake,
Out into the lake the sun went down;
Each thought on the biggest lie he could
make
And the reporters stood watching them out
of the town:
For fishers will lie and reporters believe,
For twas ever their wont though they seldom
deceive
For we've all been fishing ourselves F.!
Three editors sat in their offices high,
And they made up their sheets as the moon
went down;
And each murmured, 'Tll glance at the usual
lie,"
And they picked up the copy" with dark
some frown:
For papers must print the fishers tale
Though it calmy tells of hooking whale
For we've all been fishing ourselves.
Three journalists lay on the Office floor
In the gaslight CLEAN when the foreman
came round,
For each had read the tale from the shore
And each mad sunk down in q deadly swouud,
For the fishers had said and the scribes had
written
That all that eve not fish had bitten
And truth was stranger than fiction!
-Dakoka Bell,
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The woman's dark eyes filled with

tears.
There is no death like that of love,
and have killed that in my husbands
heart. He hates me! and II am to
blame, see it all now. Had l been
like you, the gates of my paradise
would never have been shut upon me-
But | drove him from me with my
hateful wicked temper, and the rest of
my life viii be joyless and wretched as
it deserves to be"
"While there is life there is hope"
said Alice solemnly. The words came
to her instinctively. She was greatly
surprised to learn that Barbara's hus-
band still lived, as, judging from her
deep mourning, she had thought her
widowed.
''Are you in earnest? Do you really
think what you say?' Barbara's whole
soul seemed concentrated in her eager
eyes, as she looked at Mark wife, "You
are an angel, and l will believe what
you say. 1t is you who have taught
me wherein my welded happiness was
wrecked. / should have given my hus-
band loving words and caresses, in
stead of anger and neglect. l would
give ten years of my life to see him,
and tell him of my love and repentance.
But it is too late.
They were interrupted by a sudden
sound of hurrying footsteps.
The door opened and Mark entered,
followed by stranger to Alice, but not
to Barbara
She sprang forward with wild cry,
and was caught to his breast.
''Oh, Elmer, forgiye-forgiver'
my poor girl! 1t is | who should
plead to you for forgiveness. Can you
let the past be as sealed book, and
begin our life over again?"
"Oh, so gladly-so joyfully! If you
only knew how | longed to see your
dear face since my wild flight away
from you-anywhere l thought, so as
to relieve You of my unwelcome
presence
"And /, too. my darling! Life has
seemed blank since | lost you But,
please God, nothing shall again divide
US.
Explanations followed.
Elmer Haughton was wealthy; and
in her wild anger at some fancied neg
lect of her handsome worshipped hus-
band, Barbara had thought to punish
him by leaving her elegant home, and
going away from him penniless.
AS she had told Alice, her temper
was fiery and unreasonable. Its con-
slant friction had worn upon Elmer
until his fervent love had apparently
merged into Indifference towards the
wife whose beauty and bright ways
had first attracted him.
But mutual absence had proved to
each how great was their love for one
another. Owing to the influence of the
example which Alice had unconsciously
held before Barbara, all is now peace
and happiness with the reunited pair.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
Making Iced Tea.

'1ced tea is a delicious drink said
large consumer yesterday, "but half
the people don't make it right. and as
a consequence it is not nearly so popu-
lar as ii should be. Let us give YOU
the receipt. First fill a goblet with
ice, then drop in about two teaspoon
fuls OF powdered sugar and pour in
your tea from pitcher. The tea
should be very weak; in fact, there
should be just enough of the tea juice
to take the taste off pitcher of water.
When your glass is filled squeeze the
juice of half lemon in and you have
nectar. If you want to shake it up
you'll have a bead and your neighbors
will think you are drinking beer. But
the bead won't make it taste any bet
ter"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1887-09-15
WHOLE NO. l5l5.
LabOr-Saying in the Worlds Work

When the historian of the future
writes the history of the nineteenth
century he will doubtless assign to
the period embraced by the life OF
the generation terminating in 1885.
place of Importance. considered in its
relations to the interests of humanity.
second to but very few, and perhaps to
none, of the many similar epochs of
time in any of the centuries that have
preceded it; inasmuch as all economists
who have specially studied this matter
are substantially agreed that, within
the period named, man in general has
attained to such greater control over
the fcrces of Nature, and has so COM
passed their use, that he has been
able to do far more work in a given
time, obtain a much larger product,
measured by quantity in ratio to
given amount of labor" and reduce
the effort necessary to insure com
Portable subsistence in far greater
measure, than it was possible for him
to accomplish twenty or thirty years
anterior to the time of the present
writing. In the absence of sufficiently
complete data, it is not easy, and per-
hapS not possible, to estimate accurate
ly, and specifically state the average
saving in time and labor in the worlds
work of production and distribution
that has been thus achieved. In few
departments of industrial effort the
saving in both of these factors has
certainly amounted to seventy or
eighty per cent; in not few to more
than fifty per cent. Mr.. Edward At
kinson, who has made this matter
special study, considers one third as
the minimum average that can be ac-
cepted for the period above specified.
Other authorities are inclined to assign
considerably higher average. The
deductions of Mr. William Fowler,
Fellow of University College, London,
are to the effect that the saving of
labor since 1850 in the production of
any given article amounts to forty per
cent; and the British Royal Commits
sion (minority report, 1866 character
ICES the amount of labor required to
accomplish given amount of pro-
duction and transport at the present
time as 'incon9pGrGbly less" than was
requisite forty years ago, and as be
ing constantly reduced. Hon. DaUM
a. Wells, IN Popular Science NoRthty.
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Hogs Can Swim.

There is an old tradition that hogs
can't swim. and on this is probably
founded the twice-told tale of the devil
entering into hogs in the country of
the Gaderenes, causing them to run
violently down steep bank into the
sea, where they were choked. The
idea is that the sharp cloven hoof of
the hog comes up against his throat in
his effort to paddle and cuts it. All
this is bosh. Hogs, if given half a
chance, become expert swimmers. /
know of an old SOW or 10 years old
that has been kept for breeding pur-
poses up among the Naugatuck hills of
Connecticut that can rival Boynton as
an expert in the water. Her pen is on
the bank of Mad river and runs down
to the water. Her only way of get
ting out of it is by water. Once day
during the summer she takes a swim
to little island located in the center
of the river, and there she wallows till
it is time to take her nightly rations,
when at the call of her owner she
swims back to her PEN Cincinnati
Times Star
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Death Bed Repentance.

The owner of a paper lay dying in
his lair, says the Boston Globe, and
the dew of death had gathered on his
brow so calm and fair; but a printer
knelt beside him AS his life blood ebbed
away, and asked the dying writeri if he
had word to say. The doomed man
murmured softly as he grabbed the
printers fist: .'Well. at last the strug-
giles over, and never will be missed;
take a message and token to that
city man of mine, that all his wornout
chestnutS he had better put in brine.
There's his joke about the weather,
which he's used these many years, and
the gag about the fellow who is al
ways hunting beers, and the item he's
SO fond of on the man who peddles
books, and the chestnut based on
people who go fishing at the brooks;
just to save the papers credit and cast
no slurs Oh mine, | would ask him as a
favor, just to put such gags in brine.
And the lie he's fond of telling of the
street-cars and the tracks, and the
ancient joke about the man who steps
upon some tacks; and the one about
some dandy who will never pay for
clothes, and the one on women-its
weary, heaven knows! Oh, know I'll
slumber happy in my grave beneath
the vine, if the man who does the city
work Will put these jokes in brine.
Tell the man who tends to business not
to weep when | am dead, but to buy
himself club and hit the first man on
the head who comes in with strings of
items and requests them printed free
when the regular rates are cheaper
than they really ought to be. Tell the
foreman when he makes up not to turn
a rule for me, but to simply print an
item saying that my soul is free; for l
want no eulogistic taffy of that kind in
mine, and | think such hoary chestnuts
should be picked well in brine. Have
that gay and fresh reporter engaged
the other day put stop to saying
'selah, also we have come to stay;
and if he should say we local you must
trample him in his gore, for you know
I'd never allow it in the happy days of
yore. And the man who comes to tell
you how to run the paper well, should
be greeted when he enters with pew
ter chestnut bell; and you'll print the
paper promptly, be the weather full of
storms, and the foreman must be care
full, when he's making up the forms,
that the beauty of the paper may
through all the ages shine, and not be
like its neighbors, only fit to put in
brine" The dying writer faltered, as
these simple words he spoke, and the
printer knew directly that he was
about to croak. So he propped him
up as gently as a mother would her
child, but the writer's soul had wan
dered to the land of undefiled. And
the printer sobbed little, as he gave
one last careSs, and he muttered: 81
must leave him, for it's time to 90 to
press. Very few could beat him writ
ing, for his writings were divine, and
he never had toplace them in bucket
fll Of hrin y
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Girls as Workers,

A girls mind developes very rapid
ly, much more rapidly than an aver
age boys; and when an intelligent
girl shows any special ability in one
direction she improves in that especial
direction so quickly that one is de-
ceived into thinking she has genius for
it; she herself becomes fired with am
bition, works hard,-and many girls
can work in a way that would shame
some boys,-builds castles in the air
of future fame and greatness, gives up
other interests and hopes for the one
aim, which, alas! is often disappointed.
Nineteen out of every twenty-might
we not say ninety-nine out of every
hundred?-girls stop when you think
they are going to dc something worth
doing, and never get any further.
They have talent which education has
brought out and deceived them into
mistaking for genius There is, how
ever, one very great advantage in the
present rage for classes of all kinds,
and in the facilities for study in all di-
rections; it gives many girls an object
in life, even If they do not do anything
very great for the benefit of the ma
Iinsleys Magazine.
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Mourning Jewelry.

The strangest freak of all the fash
ions of grief has been the wearing of
''mourning jewelry;" to demonstrate
our inconsolable lot by a pertinent
reference to it in our adornment is
surely paradoxical / saw the other
day mourning ring" very interest
ing in its quaint frivolity. A slender
circle of gold held an oblong disk of
white enameled surface, on which was
depicted the tomb, the weeping willow,
and the visiting relative Gin this case
widow, all neatly placed under glass.
1t was an old, old ring, belonging to
great-grandmother, who wore it for
her first husbands memory, although,
as she survived two more, it may have
done tender memorial services for all
three. The process which converts
the golden curl, the brown tress, or
the gray hair of our lost one into
chair jewelry" is among the curiosi-
ties of sentiment. Is it not cruel to
wear a portion of our dead for orna-
mentP Surely the wiry strand, re-
pellant and rigid, was never the soft
hair about the "old familiar faces" [
remember seeing some mothers hair"
woven into the design of anchors for
earrings, and the daughters were
seeming to derive comfort from the
light tossing of this emblem of
security, and no doubt finding some
occult satisfactory reason for the in
congruity of design and fact. In our
youth there clustered about us all
maiden aunts wearing chains and
bracelets of hair, their stiffness SEEM
ing to testify to an unyielding sorrow,
and their quantity that the departed"
must have been Samsons. Then there
were the brooches with the bulging
serpentine twists of hair forming a
frame for the pictured face of the
original possessor of the hair-an un-
certain appeal to frame, as the exigen-
cies of a brooch sometimes subjected
the head to the vicissitude of being
worn upside down, thus marring the
act Of would-be respectful memory
JeDeErJ NeaUS.